5.40pm Secret Asset completes a fine day for the bookmakers

Will Hayler: The bookmakers have definitely finished on top after the first day of the meeting, with the defeats of several well-backed runners being compounded by surprise results in the last couple of races. It's the turn of the frustrating Secret Asset to put his head in front in the closing five-furlong handicap with David Nicholls, who usually targets the race, having to settle for third place with Fathom Five.

Having gone well for the featherlight touch of George Baker in the past, the renewal of the association proved just the ticket for Secret Asset.

Impossible result, impossible race. And there'll be plenty more of that sort of thing over the next four days! Good old Glorious Goodwood.

5.30pm Red Gulch gives Walker his first Glorious Goodwood winner

Will Hayler: Rookie trained Ed Walker enjoyed his first Glorious Goodwood success when Red Gulch gained reward for his consistency in the one-mile

handicap.

Second three times this season, moving up in trip proved the key for the winner who burst clear when the gaps came and had enough in hand to deny Sylvestre de Sousa a double as Guest Book came out of the pack for second place. Truism finished third in the race for the second year running.

4.50 Moustache gives Richard Hughes his second winner

Will Hayler: Richard Fahey followers were left licking their wounds as Richard Hughes assumed his usual role as the winningmost rider at the meeting when Moustache narrowly denied outsider Llanarmon Lad in the two-year-old maiden.

Fahey had declared Warcrown to be his best two-year-old and backers followed him in, sending the colt off a well-backed favourite. But he fluffed the start and was never really able to land a blow to the principals.

Moustache was beaten at 1-3 in a Chepstow maiden on his previous start, explaining why punters were ready to desert him here, but Richard Hannon revealed afterwards that the colt had returned with an infection after that race and that a much better showing had been expected here. Now he tells us!

Result: 1st Moustache 6-1 2nd Llanarmon Lad 33-1 3rd Tidy Affair 17-2

4.20pm Irish raider Requinto wins Molecomb Stakes

Will Hayler: The Molecomb Stakes hasn't always packed much of a punch in recent years, but Irish hope Requinto looked an above-average winner of the race when cutting through the pack to win going away by a length and a quarter in a fast time.

Burwaaz showed up well along with early leader Vocational as the stands' rail proved the place to be in the early stages, but the pair came back to the pack in the closing stages leading to a frantic finish.

Trained by David Wachmann, Requinto has been defeated in both starts over six furlongs, but seems to thrive over the minimum trip and came into the contest on the back of victory in a Listed race at Tipperary.

"I've had a few rides here before and not had a lot of luck, but everything went well," said winning rider Wayne Lordan. "He's a colt with plenty of speed and the gaps came when I wanted them."

Result: 1st Requinto 6-1, 2nd Burwaaz 7-1, 3rd Charles The Great 8-1

Today's best bets, by Greg Wood

Some forecasts were suggesting that we would have a dry week at Goodwood, but there has been fairly steady rain here this morning. It has stopped for the moment, but there are enough darker clouds in the distance to suggest that we are not done with it entirely.

The going remains good, with the GoingStick giving a reading of 8.4 when Seamus Buckley, the clerk of the course, walked round at 10.30am.

"We had just over 1mm of rain between 8.30am and 10am this morning, but it has made no difference to the ground," Buckley said. "We are forecast to be pretty much dry all the way through the week now. The track is in great order and I am delighted with its condition."

At this stage, Frankie Dettori is still expected to take up his two booked rides on the card this afternoon, the best of the pair being Delegator, one of the favourites for the Lennox Stakes. He is stepping back up to seven furlongs after a rather disappointing run behind Dream Ahead in the July Cup last time, and produced one of the best runs of his career over this trip in a Listed race at Newbury last September.

He has been a bit hit-and-miss ever since, though, and while it may be that this turns out to be his ideal distance, there is also at least a hint of desperation about it after two runs this season that were supposed to turn him into a sprinter. Strong Suit (3.10), on the other hand, definitely seems to have found his niche at seven furlongs, and looks a very solid bet to win this afternoon.

Slumber (2.35) is a decent price to turn over Fiorente in the Gordon Stakes, while Arlequin (2.00) is suggested as a very live each-way contender for the opening race at very long odds. He should not be a 25-1 chance on his best form, much of which has been recorded in big fields like today's.

1.30pm Dettori back to ride Delegator but will miss Gordon Stakes

Frankie Dettori, as expected, has recovered from the injuries he sustained when falling off Rewilding during the King George on Saturday and will be at Glorious Goodwood. But he has been forced to give up his ride on Hunter's Light in the Group 3 Gordon Stakes due to a problem with his travel arrangements to the racecourse, although he is expected to ride Delegator in the Lennox Stakes. Hunter's Ride will now be ridden by Ted Durcan.

Godolphin announced on Twitter: "Frankie misses ride on Hunter's Light in the G3 Gordon Stakes at Goodwood today due to travel hiccup. Ted Durcan now rides the 3yo colt."

2.20pm Winning nap to start Glorious Goodwood

Will Hayler: There's no finer way to start Glorious Goodwood than with a 20-1 winner and that's what Greg Wood has delivered us with.

Arlequin, James Bethell's only runner of the week at the meeting, took the brave route to squeeze up the inside of the frontrunners under Graham Gibbons. And although favourite Modun, on whom Ryan Moore was hard at work three furlongs out, was staying on strongest of the whole 18-runner field, he just failed by a steadily-diminishing neck to reel in the winner.

"He's quite a good horse and he's in a Group race in Germany I think," said Bethell. "It's a long way down from Yorkshire but it's worth it for good prize money like this."

3.00 Namibian gets the better of Fiorente to win Gordon Stakes

Will Hayler: Namibian will head to the Ladbrokes St Leger at Doncaster in September with his reputation enhanced after he showed impressive versatility to beat favourite Fiorente, the Stoute-Moore combination having to settle for second place again. This race often throws up a contender for the final Classic of the season and Namibian was understandably cut to 10-1 by the sponsors for the Leger after building on his Queen's Vase victory at Royal Ascot. Given the stamina he showed at Ascot, it was a slight surprise not to see him at the head of affairs from the start, but despite having to drop back in trip by half a mile, he had enough speed to fight his way past Well Sharp and Slumber before holding off Fiorente by a neck.

Winning rider Sylvestre de Sousa jockeys' championship charge seems to gather pace each day. Celebrating his 50th winner at the meeting, winning trainer Mark Johnston said: "I don't entirely know why we always seem to do so well at this meeting, but I certainly hope this isn't the last one.

"It was a last-minute decision to run here and I was thinking about running him in the Goodwood Cup, but we had the St Leger in mind and it was nice to see him come back to a mile and a half and still do it.

"We've established that he's not just a stayer by winning here. I haven't discussed it with the owners yet, but it's another Group-race under his belt and everything's an option."

Result: 1st Namibian 7-1 2nd Fiorente 11-10fav 3rd Hunter's Light 8-1

3.30pm Strong Suit's renaissance continues

Will Hayler: Strong Suit simply proved a class apart in the Group Two Lennox Stakes, which his stablemate Paco Boy won three years ago.

Now that his breathing problems have been corrected, he is clearly a horse to be flying high again and when Richard Hughes asked him to quicken past Red Jazz the response was immediate.

Paco Boy went on to win his first Group One in the Prix de la Foret at Longchamp later that season and Strong Suit could well go down the same route this year, although connections remain adamant that it wasn't lack of stamina for a mile which saw him beaten at Chantilly on his previous start.

"He just didn't give me the same feeling that day as he did here or at Ascot, but he is a very classy horse and he travels so well," said Hughes.

Tipping competition, day two

Olderandcolder (an Arcade Fire reference maybe?) is the early leader in the Glorious Goodwood Talking Horses tipping competition by being the only player to find more than one winner on the first day.

The number of players selecting Cathy Gannon's mount in the final of the three races makes me wonder whether we have got the biggest online Cathy Gannon Fan Club going now. Wouldn't it be brilliant if she can have a winner at the big meeting this week?

This week's winner's prize may not be our best ever giveaway, but it's a collector's item nevertheless - an exclusive card game for racing fans, 'Love the Horses Collectacards', produced by Racing For Change in the style of the old Top Trumps games. There are 30-odd cards, each featuring a current Flat racehorse. RFC are pondering a jumps version (which would surely be at least as popular) later in the year. You get the kudos of victory too, and you can't put a price on that!

This week we'll be keeping a fairly Glorious theme (maybe with a dash of Galway later on) and we'd like your tips, please, for these races: 2.00 Goodwood, 2.35 Goodwood and 3.45 Goodwood.

As ever, our champion will be the tipster who returns the best profit to notional level stakes of £1 at starting price on our nominated races, of which there will be three each day up until Friday. Non-runners count as losers.

In the event of a tie at the end of the week, the winner will be the tipster who, from among those tied on the highest score, posted their tips earliest on the final day.